New Manga Shout Out: 5/21/12 - 5/27/12

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. This week features a high school student/ghost surgeon duo, shogi and mountain climbing. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

For Shinonome Keisuke, high school student Kotone Tasuku is the only person in the world that he can communicate with. Once a brilliant surgeon, Shinonome passes away at a young age, only to wander the world as a ghost, a ghost that only Tasuku can see and talk to. When an accident leaves Tasuku’s hot childhood friend Takeuchi Mai’s younger brother severely injured, the only way that he can survive is if Shinonome and Tasuku work together to become the most unusual and possibly talented pair of emergency surgeons the country has ever seen!

In this Kyushu guidebook manga, each of the Kyushu prefectures is personified as a sexy, scantily clad girl samurai. Each girl has a personality that reflects her geographical zone, and they bring up tons of information about their respective regions, as well. This is a manga for anyone who wants to learn about the attractions of the Kyushu region!

One day, a young man named Himuro Shousuke shows up out of nowhere, claiming he wants to become a shogi master. When he is told that he must follow the appropriate channels to become a pro shogi player, he produces a recommendation from a highly respected master, Mikami Sankichi. Shousuke claims he trained with Sankichi in Kochi, and now he's ready to skip the early steps of becoming one of the elite. People are understandably skeptical, but Shousuke begins to beat the skilled players they match him up with. Some are unhappy about an outsider coming into their hierarchy at a high level, but will they be able to stop his rise? The future is full of the internal politics of the shogi world and exciting shogi matches!

In their early twenties, Mikami Toshiya and Hiraoka Keiji were mountain climbing partners. Over the next few years, though, Mikami chose having a family and stable career over his passion for mountain climbing. Now he has a wife and son, and he has turned his back on the mountains entirely. In doing so, he began to lose touch with Hiraoka, who continued to build his life around mountain climbing at the exclusion of all else.

One day, news comes out that another peak over 8000 meters tall has been discovered in the Himalayas. Whoever is the first to successfully climb this peak will be allowed to name it. Hiraoka would like to try to be the first, but he can't climb the mountain alone. Mikami, on the other hand, is finding his dedication to his family over mountain climbing severely tested. Will Hiraoka and Mikami once again team up to take on this newest challenge?

Saibara Rieko is a well established manga artist in the real world. She has been in the industry for several years and has had the chance to meet other famous manga artists. She decided that it would be fun to challenge the friends she has made in the industry to draw other characters from different series purely from their own memory and see who can do the best job. Lots of big names participate in this game and you get to see your favorite authors try to draw their version of your favorite characters.

There are some relationships that are not meant to be, but human emotion and passion sometimes overcome those uncharted boundaries. The beautiful wife living next door, step siblings with bottled up feelings for each other, the old fling from high school days. These relationships were never meant to happen for good reasons but that one night and one moment in time, both man and woman throw out logic and reason to give in to their primal needs.

Human beings can be extremely vengeful people and there are angry people in society that would go to the ends of the Earth to exact revenge for their pain and suffering. Their anger stems from romance, finance or even reputation, but most of them have this frustration and anger bottled up inside them, not knowing how to direct this emotion. That is where the Uramiya steps in. The mysterious woman will charge her clients for ruining the life of the individual they have a grudge on. It could be financially destroying them, smearing their social status or even taking their life, for the right price…

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo.

Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner, including "his" true gender!

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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Ikarosu no Yama was my favorite this week. I thought it was really well written, and extreme mountain climbing is a pretty neat sport to read about. Yuureitou was also very intriguing. The main character (Taichi) is kind of a jerk, but the premise is cool.Here's what vyc had to say:

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Dr Duo is a brand new series that has a plot I've never read before. A genius surgeon's ghost and a high school kid team up to become the greatest and youngest surgeon ever. I liked the first chapter and hope it continues to interest me in the following storyline.My opinion: Uramiya Honpo sounds a little like Hell Girl minus the Hell part. Yuureitou sounds a bit interesting.